Motivational Quotes

Power

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

- Weil, Simone

Best Quotes about Power

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

19.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.